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I am thinking of reinstalling xp. Lots of reasons, it's
been a year, computer is getting slower, I want to set up
a different partition scene, etc.

I came to the newsgroup hoping to get some encouragement
and all I see are horror stories. What are the chances
of actually having a successful reenstall?

I did an in place reinstall a couple of months ago and
while I all most had a heart attack when it ask me to
register again I ingnored that and it worked.

But I really want to do a clean. This is not an upgrade
situation and I'm a little nervous having read the post
from the guy who said his was an OEM. I guess mine is
also, so should I worry?

Should I run a ghost program on my C: drive? I don't have
one and it would cost at least half of what a new xp
would cost

The computer is pretty much the same as when I activated
it, the motherboard, ram and HD's are exactly the same
but the CD's are new. Should I give up now and just go
buy another copy and save the aggravation? Or is there
reasonable expectation of success.

Thanks

David in San Francisco
 
Why are you worried about re-register? Did you lose the
product key?

Check for OEM:
control panel
system
general tab
if OEM appears on the number in center of window it is OEM
 
dgr said:
I am thinking of reinstalling xp. Lots of reasons, it's
been a year, computer is getting slower, I want to set up
a different partition scene, etc.

I came to the newsgroup hoping to get some encouragement
and all I see are horror stories. What are the chances
of actually having a successful reenstall?

I did an in place reinstall a couple of months ago and
while I all most had a heart attack when it ask me to
register again I ingnored that and it worked.

But I really want to do a clean. This is not an upgrade
situation and I'm a little nervous having read the post
from the guy who said his was an OEM. I guess mine is
also, so should I worry?

Should I run a ghost program on my C: drive? I don't have
one and it would cost at least half of what a new xp
would cost

The computer is pretty much the same as when I activated
it, the motherboard, ram and HD's are exactly the same
but the CD's are new. Should I give up now and just go
buy another copy and save the aggravation? Or is there
reasonable expectation of success.
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I do dozens of new/reinstalls a week. The only ones that go bad are those
machines with Hardware Issues. Go for it.
 
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